Steven "Michael Jack Schmitt" Kleinman March 5, 2008

Today is of course the first day of baseball.  I am very excited, especially after my dreams of a big five team winning the NCAA tournament were dashed last night by UNC beating NOVA.  Bummer right?  Well except that NOVA is my second least favorite big five team.  I guess the funny thing is that Drexel, St. Joes, LaSalle don't really count.  It's mainly that I like Temple, actively root against Penn, and for the most part like but don't love NOVA.  Any Philly ball team with the exception of Penn is great to root for, all I'm saying is that NOVA can also be a bit lame as a place of education, not as lame as Penn, but still up there. 

All of that seems to be a bit of a transgression.  What I really want to get at real quick is a short list of the events of our month, some things we're looking forward to, and maybe some gruff about biking.  So as far as events are concerned, we had a good month in March.  The most exciting event was our Date Auction.  I went for $45.00.  Not bad.  But I haven't gone on my date yet.  In other news, I started dating a girl who was there that night, she didn't buy me, but it was still a good event for my personal life.  I also lost my voice at the event because we had so many Gesher city Schmoes shouting.  it's like being in Old City Philadelphia on a saturday night, just about everyone was new to the environment and acting like their parents didn't teach them better.  That's one of the major reasons that I'm coming to really love our shabbat dinners.  I think we are starting to get a more regular crowd.  And while some folks still treat our house like a restaurant/bar/late night motel, we are really starting to iron out a group of folks who truly care about what we are trying to do.  For this reason March brought with her two great shabbat dinners.  They were a bit small in numbers but the people were really great at both.  

Biking stuff:  I've decided to start riding riser bars.  I know I know, too trendy right?  Well listen, mostly I ride my bike in the city, and it pays to be upright.  For longer trips I agree that drop bars are more ergonomical.  But on a shorter - say sub 10 mile - trip, it pays to not have to strain my neck.  There was talk of a riding trip with some MH guests on Friday at shabbat.  I think I'll try to debut my new style for that trip.  Also, I want to learn how to do track stands better so that I can wheelie.  I think the two go hand in hand.  

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